Get ready to watch the International Robot Duel on October 17
Wars, fights, duels and other happenings like that are only enjoyable in movies and films, but in real life, a duel that is awaited almost two years is finally set for 17th October this year.
It will be a giant robot duel between two teams of engineers from the U.S. and Japan.
Two years ago, a team of U.S. engineers under the label of MegaBots Inc. while challenging their Japan counterparts, Suidobashi Heavy Industry, urged them to make a duel involving giant robots.
After a lot of work and some back-and-forth between both the counterparts, the long-awaited duel is going to finally take place the next week.
The Robot duel was initially set for sometime back in August but got delayed for unknown reasons. It is suspected that it’s due to the long time required for building and testing the robots
The fight already happened to permit for repairs, meaning what is presented on Twitch will probably be an edited version of the upcoming duel event.
Everyone can see this international robot duel on Twitch. The fight would not be a live event.
The fight between MegaBots’ Eagle Prime and Suidobashis’ Kuratas has already happened. The fight event was held at an abandoned Japanese steel mill.
And most probably the upcoming event of the robotic fight will be an edited version of the previous one.
The duel consisted of several rounds, with repairs between rounds needing multiple days to complete.
This duel happened without an audience to witness. Only engineers of both the teams and commentators Mike Goldberg of the MMA and robotics expert Saura Naderi were present there.
MegaBots’ Gui Cavalcanti has explained to The Verge that the duel was fought on a knockdown system that means a team could only win the fight if they knocked down or disabled the other robot of the counterpart.
Weight, size, weapons, and the other specifications for the robots were left up to both of the two teams.
The weapons were needed “to not cut through metal, but instead to damage it.” And that’s a sensible decision when both robots have pilots inside, who would be susceptible to anything penetrating their robot’s body or the cockpit.
So get prepared for a relatively slow fight. Don’t miss watching the video above, in which the states’ Eagle Prime doesn’t move very fast. This Eagle Prime weighs in at 12 tons (24,000 lbs.).
